When you send your picture's into an agency,you realize your chance of getting an answer is not good. When the phone rings and it's a top agency wanting an interview,you're still thinking,this may or may not happen. When they sign you shortly after you walk into their office,you start to think,OK,I'm going to be a model. Your idea is that you're going to be in local magazines and do commercial jobs for department stores. Their idea is much bigger....in fact it's amazing. They want to send you to Paris. They know what your dreams are and they fuel the flame. If you take a chance and go to Paris you'll have your dream and much more. The word "maybe " is never mentioned. Two weeks later you're on your way to Paris (with your mom,because you're only 15.) You arrive with too much luggage and drag the whole mess into the agency. The receptionist takes you to meet with the agency head and during the conversation it comes up that you're only 15. Her reaction is an immediate "NO"! Your mom says right away that if that's going to be a problem, your bags are still packed and you both can return to the states....but after regaining her composure she says,"Certainly not". Then all the talk about a doctor's visit to get a health certificate and that you can only work a few days a week comes out.
In the mean time she is giving your mom an address for a room where you will be staying. Room is putting it mildly....the carpet is full of holes,the twin mattresses are on the floor and the paint is coming off the ceiling. The house where your room is located is occupied by a 90 year old lady who has a tendency to wander. The next day she wanders into the bathroom where you are taking a shower (no curtain) and won't leave. Shortly thereafter your mom is calling the agency to say this is not going to work.....to be continued...
In the mean time she is giving your mom an address for a room where you will be staying. Room is putting it mildly....the carpet is full of holes,the twin mattresses are on the floor and the paint is coming off the ceiling. The house where your room is located is occupied by a 90 year old lady who has a tendency to wander. The next day she wanders into the bathroom where you are taking a shower (no curtain) and won't leave. Shortly thereafter your mom is calling the agency to say this is not going to work.....to be continued...